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THINKING FOR YOURSELF: DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH READING AND WRITING offers a unique integration of composition, reading, and critical thinking. As you complete the book's writing assignments, you'll see how your writing reflects your thinking and how self-directed improvement in thinking also improves writing. The book offers step-by-step instruction, humor, cartoons, Internet research exercises, and up-to-date social and political examples as a foundation for lifelong improvement in thinking and writing.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Introduction to Critical Thinking

Learning How You Think

Discovery Exercise

Experiencing How We Actually Think: An Exercise for the Whole Class to Complete Together

Learning from Sharing How We Think

What Is Critical Thinking? Relationship to Creative Thinking

Diagram: Different Functions of Left and Right Brain

Why Learn Critical Thinking? The Habits of a Critical Thinker

Box: Habits of a Critical Thinker

Basics of Critical Thinking

Observation Skills: What''s Out There? Discovery Exercises

Comparing Our Perceptions

What Is Observing? Observing a Cube

Observation and Insight

Using Observation Skills to Develop New Knowledge

Reading

Look at Your Fish, by Samuel H. Scudder

Core Discovery Writing Application

Observing the Familiar: Vegetables and Fruit

Evaluating Your Work by Using the Scoring Boxes

Alternate Core Discovery Writing Application

Observing the Unfamiliar: A Tool

The Observation Process: Sensing, Perceiving, Thinking

Barriers to Observation

How Discomfort Leads Us to Think

Diagram: A Choice for Thinking

The Rewards of Skilled Observation

Building Arguments

Observation Skills

Reading

The Innocent Eye

Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz

Composition Writing Application

Survival as a Result of Observing: A Descriptive Narrative Essay

Readings: God Grew Tired of Us

Walking

Spanish Harlem at Night

Word Precision: How Do I Describe It? Discovery Exercise

On Finding the Right Word

Discovery Exercise

Taking an Interest in Dictionaries

How Well Do You Use Your Dictionary? Clear Thinking Depends on Clear Word Definitions

What Makes a Definition? Diagram: Definition Boundaries

Exercise

Word Boundaries

Kinds of Definitions

The Connotations of Words

The Importance of Defining Key Ideas

Word Concepts

Defining Reality

Defining Truth

What Is Critical Reading? Building Arguments

Word Choices

Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz

Composition Writing Application

A Short Essay of Definition

Box: Clustering

Readings

Rankism by Robert W. Fuller, Nerds by David Anderegg, Saved by Malcom X